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My wife and I have been visiting Kruger since 2005 and have fallen in love with the park and everything in it
but as it is with most things the more one learns about something, the more prepared you are for any type
of eventuality.
We found that although the park caters well for most of our needs it is often the call of nature that can pose some serious problems.
We have had some hilarious situations which I am sure I should not share here but there is one that I will share.
We had pre-empted the possibility of us needing a portable toilet and to that end had purchased a pan and a bottle from the Pharmacy.
Armed with our new equipment we found ourselves at a leopard sighting which took about four hours and we had taken some really good pics, when some one pulled up next to us and asked if we had seen the four cheetahs on the H3 about 10 kms from the T-junction, we replied that we had not but that we would go and have a look.
As it turned out the prospect of seeing a mother cheetah with 3 cubs proved to be far too much excitement and we had no sooner started driving, when we got " THE CALL OF NATURE" you know the one.
The ONE you cannot ignore, so we promptly pulled off the road and proceeded to address the issue.
Well we had obviously first surveyed our territory carefully to make sure we were not taken by surprise but to our TERROR were not fast or vigilant enough.
THANK GOODNESS we had the foresight to place coverings over ourselves to remain relatively inconspicuous, because just then a car with a single guy pulled up and after looking around he said What have you guys seen? redface:
Well I don't know how we held our composure but with the two most innocent faces you have ever seen we replied that we were just thirsty and taking a break.
The poor confused guy had no sooner left when we burst into screams of laughter.
Can anyone else relate to this predicament. If you can please share.

I can relate An extract from one of my TR's below

About 5km from Mlondozi I was starting to feel green again and the familiar beads of sweat were starting on the forehead, 6km to the loo!!! A few minutes later I realized that 25km/h wasn’t going to cut it, so I was on the walkie talkie to Supernova, who was in front. “Best pull over, I need to pass now!!” Supernova pulled over and I was up to 40km/h.

With 2km to Mlondozi I said to the SO “I’m not going to make it”, she replied “Go in the bush”, which had Bushpiggy howling with laughter, but I didn’t share a joke. All I could think about was my butt on the gallery of shame, or even worse, getting chased through the grass naked by a lion, so I said “Dig your nails into my arm and distract me”

The SO then came up with another plan “Climb in the back of the bakkie and sit on the cooler box”, which had all the rats howling with laughter. Neither option appealed to me.

The next 1.5km were the longest of my life!!

I hit the ground at Mlondozi car park running, but to my horror no toilet paper!!! Sprint back to the car and steal the kid’s tissues, back to the loo.

5 minutes later and with a more stable blood pressure, I wondered who else was at Mlondozi and what they thought about me running backwards and forwards through the car park. Eventually I decided to slowly sneak out the loo and casually waddle down to the thatched boma, but I felt my head glowing the entire way down. Fortunately nobody seemed to have noticed, so my confidence returned and the skottel breakfast was under way, but the “green feeling” was still there.

I have related this story many times, but what the heck.

On one of my first trips to Kruger in the 1950s, we were driving on the dirt roads somewhere around Pkop when my mum just had to 'go'. My dad stopped the car and we had a quick look around. She and I opened our doors and she squatted 'off side' and my dad instructed my brother and I to look out of the drivers side while he looked on the 'off' side.
"GET BACK IN THE CAR!" he yelled as she was (I presume) in mid stream, "AND SHUT THE DOORS". She did and I did rather quickly, and looking out of the window, we saw a surprised lioness a few metres away, blending into the winter grass, as were her sisters a little further away........

This was the pic that I was supposed to include before